, whenever they who speak trumpet-tongued to grand
democracies would rouse some quailing generation to heroic deed or
sacrifice, they appeal in the Name of Ancestors, and call upon the
living to be worthy of the dead! That which is so laudable--nay, so
necessary a sentiment in the mass, cannot be a fault that angers Heaven
in the man. Like all high sentiments, it may compel harsh and rugged
duties; it may need the stern suppression of many a gentle impulse--of
many a pleasing wish. But we must regard it in its merit and consistency
as a whole. And if, my eloquent and subtle friend, all you have hitherto
said be designed but to wind into pleas for the same cause that I have
already decided against the advocate in my own heart which sides with
Lionel's generous love and yon fair girl's ingenuous and touching grace,
let us break up the court; the judge has no choice but the law which
imperiously governs his judgment."

GEORGE MORLEY.--"I have not hitherto presumed to apply to particular
cases the general argument you so indulgently allow me to urge in
favour of my theory, that in the world of the human heart, when closely
examined, there is the same harmony of design as in the external
universe; that in Fault and in Sorrow are the axioms, and problems, and
postulates of a SCIENCE. Bear with me a little longer if I still pursue
the same course of reasoning. I shall not have the arrogance to argue a
special instance--to say, 'This you should do, this you should not do.'
All I would ask is, leave to proffer a few more suggestions to your own
large and candid experience."

Said Darrell, irresistibly allured on, but with a tinge of his grave
irony: "You have the true genius of the pulpit, and I concede to you its
rights. I will listen with the wish to profit--the more susceptible of
conviction because freed from the necessity to reply."

GEORGE MORLEY.--"You vindicate the object which has been the main
ambition of your life. You say 'not an ignoble object.' Truly! ignoble
objects are not for you. The question is, are there not objects nobler,
which should have attained higher value, and led to larger results in
the soul which Providence assigned to you; was not the proper place of
the object you vindicate that of an auxiliary--a subordinate, rather
than that of the all-directing, self-sufficing leader and autocrat
of such various powers of mind? I picture you to myself--a lone,
bold-hearted boy--in this ancient hall, amidst t